Awards and Recognition
At Payara, our commitment to innovation, reliability, and enterprise excellence has been recognised worldwide. From the prestigious Queen’s Award for International Trade to leading industry honours, these awards reflect the trust our customers place in us and the impact we make in the global Java community.
Payara Services Wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise
Payara has been honoured with the most prestigious UK business award: the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Often called the “Knighthood for Businesses”, the Queen’s Award is also renowned worldwide, with Payara’s award particularly recognising our international success.
Established in 1965, the Awards single out and celebrate the most exciting and innovative businesses in the UK, with the International Trade award specifically aiming to celebrate those delivering impressive results on a global scale.
Payara was recognised for the award due to increasing its annual revenue by 107% over the last three years, with export sales more than doubling from 33% to 75% across 9 countries globally.
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Top 25 Inspiring Workplaces in Europe 2025
The Inspiring Workplaces Awards are run by the Inspiring Workplaces Group, and they recognise companies across Europe that demonstrate a PeopleFirst culture, focusing on six core dimensions: culture & purpose, leadership, wellbeing, inclusion, employee voice, and experience.
- In 2025, Payara was ranked in the Top 25 and also as a Top 5 medium business in that set.
Cloud Excellence Awards 2025
The Cloud Excellence Awards, hosted by Computing magazine / events, highlight outstanding contributions in the UK cloud and infrastructure ecosystem — including products, services, support, and cloud adoption.
- Cloud Management Solution of the Year — Payara Qube
- Multi/Hybrid Cloud Product of the Year — Payara Cloud
- Best Cloud Support Provider — Shortlisted
Women in Tech Awards 2025
The Women in Tech Excellence Awards aim to recognise and celebrate trailblazing women across technology roles (not only coding) and stages of career.
- Tech Professional (non-coding) — Finalist
Computing Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2025
The Computing Digital Technology Leaders Awards are run by Computing (UK) and provide a platform to promote leaders, projects, and organisations that are pushing the boundaries of digital transformation in the UK tech sector.
- James Hillyard won Young Digital Professional of the Year
European AI Awards 2025
They aim to recognise leading European players — companies, organisations, innovators — across categories like AI Business, AI Investor, AI Policy, AI Ecosystem Enabler, etc
- Payara Starter was a finalist
Comparably Happiest Employees 2024
Top 175 highest-rated companies with the Happiest Employees, according to anonymous employee feedback on Comparably.com.
Recognized as one of the best in:
- Happiest Employees
Women & Diversity in Channel Awards 2024
The Women & Diversity in Channel Awards aim to champion, recognise and celebrate women and diversity in the channel. The awards want to put firms and individuals in the spotlight that are not only tackling gender issues, but are making diversity, in all senses.
Finalists in:
- Diversity Champion of the Year
- Health and Wellbeing Recognition
- Equitable Place to Work
Remote Excellence Awards 2024
The Remote Excellence Awards celebrate the visionary efforts of companies worldwide that are trailblazing in the realm of remote work and distributed teams. They recognize the most successful solutions and strategies while providing inspiring roadmaps for other businesses to follow.
Highly Commended in:
- Excellence in DE&I (diversity, equity and inclusion)
European Diversity Awards 2024
The European Diversity Awards 2024 celebrates the amazing individuals, organisations, companies, charities and networks that drive Diversity, Inclusion and Equality into the heart of everything they do.
Finalists in:
- Diversity in Technology
The Investors in People Awards 2024
The Investors in People Awards aim to Make Work Better, and for us there’s no better way to motivate organisations and individuals to do that than celebrating their success and shining a light on their achievements.
Finalists in:
- Diversity and Inclusion
Midlands Women in Tech Awards 2024
The Midlands Women in Tech Awards are a unique opportunity to highlight and recognise the ongoing contribution of women in the tech sector. These aim to recognise women from the whole of the Middle England.
Finalists in:
- Tech Professional (Non Coding)
Cloud Excellence Award 2024
The Cloud Excellence Awards recognize the very best of the UK’s cloud computing industry, from the most innovative and compelling products and vendors to the top use cases from the companies that use them.
The cloud paradigm can enable organisations to respond rapidly to changing market conditions and experiment with new ideas, products and tools. It can also be an incredibly efficient way to set up new infrastructure and platforms or to share the management of parts of the IT estate the business would prefer not to keep in-house.
Finalists in:
- Most Innovative Cloud Product or Service
Birmingham Tech Week Awards
The Birmingham Tech Week awards celebrate tech leaders and businesses across the West Midlands, UK. They celebrate tech, digital and innovation.
Finalists in:
- Global Growth
The Midlands Business Awards
The Midlands Business Awards celebrates the finest business talent the Midlands has to offer. From manufacturers, service providers to universities and young entrepreneurs, we recognise the best business minds in 13 different categories.
Finalists in:
- International Trade/ Exporter of the Year
The Tech Leaders & Summit Awards 2019
The Tech leaders awards is the UK’s leading celebration of IT and digital leaders driving disruptive innovation and demonstrating value from the application of technology in large organisations.
Finalists in:
- Open Source Leader of the Year
- Business leader of the Year – Steve Millidge
The Family Business Awards 2019
The Midlands Family Business Awards is a charitable initiative that aims to create an ethical, friendly and supportive community for our region’s family businesses.
Finalists in:
- Best Small Family Business
The Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards
The 2019 Worcestershire Apprenticeships Awards celebrated the most successful apprentices, schools, training providers and apprenticeship employers across 12 awards.
Finalists in:
- Small Apprenticeship Employer of the year
OpenUK Awards First Edition, 2020
OpenUK advocates for Open Technology being open source software, open source hardware and open data, “Open” in and for business communities across the UK. OpenUK’s Purpose is to develop and sustain UK leadership in Open Technology.
Finalists in:
- Open Source Software
Herefordshire & Worcestershire Chamber Business Awards
The Chamber Business Awards recognises the best of Herefordshire & Worcestershire. They were created to celebrate the achievements of the local business community.
Finalists in:
- Employer of the year
- Small business of the year
- Health and wellbeing employer of the year
- Exporter of the year
Recognised for Excellence
In August 2021, we were presented with the trophy in an official ceremony, welcoming officials from across the Worcestershire region to acknowledge Payara’s success. These included Harriett Baldwin, MP for West Worcestershire; Vice Lord-Lieutenant Brigadier, Roger Brunt CBE; and Robert Elliot, Director of Business Engagement and Development for Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce. This video presents highlights from the ceremony. Read more about it in our accompanying blog.
